This is a rush transcript from “Special Report,” December 27, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated
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JOE BIDEN, (D) PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We went from no over-the- counter tests in January to 46 million in October, 100 million in November, and almost 200 million in December. But it’s not enough. It’s clearly not enough.
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JOE BIDEN, (D) PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I would make sure we move in the direction of rapid testing, investing in rapid testing.
I will take care of this. I will end this. I will make sure we have a plan.
We need to scale up testing so anyone who needs one can get a test. After 10 months of the pandemic, we still don’t have enough testing. That’s a travesty.
Seeing how tough it was for some folks to get a test this weekend shows that we have more work to do, and we’re doing it. Provided we had known, we would have gone harder, quicker if we could have.
Look, there is no federal solution. This gets solved at a state level.
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BAIER: Well, that meeting between President Biden and the nation’s governors about COVID-19 and his administration’s response was really eye- opening if you think about what candidate Biden had said for quite a long time on the trail, and then President-elect Biden said. You heard some of that. But here’s a tweet from August, “Donald Trump is not responsible for COVID-19 but he does bear full responsibility for the failed national response. We’ve got to hold him accountable this November.” And you heard President Biden with the governors saying today that there is no federal solution, that it needs to be solved at a state level.
Let’s bring in our panel, syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt, Susan Page, Washington Bureau Chief at “USA Today,” and Byron York, chief political correspondent of “The Washington Examiner.”
Hugh, is it just me or is that kind of a stunning juxtaposition of those two things?
HUGH HEWITT,…
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